Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.

I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

To be weird! That is my goal!

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

If you control the children, you control the future.

I am slowly coming to the conclusion that it’s more important to learn to work with what you’ve got, under the circumstances you’ve been given, than wishing for different ones.

Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

Those of little faith mistake local cloud cover for general darkness. Keeping spiritually intact results in our keeping precious perspective by seeing "things as they really are."

We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel!

The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for.